Hellifield Beck
Joins the Ribble between Arnford Weir and Low Moor, no more than 26.9 km by river above Low Moor. Nearest the Ribble: Hellifield Low.
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Live levels from 10 monitoring stations across Lancashire, North Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locks Weirstructure | 0.28 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 2.7 km by river | ||||
| Penny Bridge | 0.58 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 12.3 km by river | ||||
| Arnford Weirstructure | 0.54 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 26.2 km by river | ||||
| Low Moor | 0.77 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 3.6 km by river | ||||
| Henthorn | 0.68 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 3.9 km by river | ||||
| New Jumbles Rock | 0.51 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 7.6 km by river | ||||
| Ribchester School | 0.36 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 14.5 km by river | ||||
| Samlesbury | 1.33 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 5.5 km by river | ||||
| Walton-Le-Daletidal | 0.43 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
| 2.9 km by river | ||||
| Penworthamtidal | 3.70 m 33m ago | Normal | ||
Stations are listed from source to mouth as the water flows, traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers) and the Environment Agency’s own links between its gauges. A distance “by river” is along the river, and is shown only where the map traces the path.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Ribble above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Each tributary’s water passes the gauge it joins above and every gauge below it on the Ribble, and none of the gauges above where it joins. For each, the gauge nearest the Ribble is shown; its own page lists the rest.
Joins the Ribble between Arnford Weir and Low Moor, no more than 26.9 km by river above Low Moor. Nearest the Ribble: Hellifield Low.
Joins the Ribble between Arnford Weir and Low Moor, no more than 7.2 km by river above Low Moor. Nearest the Ribble: Chatburn Pendle Avenue Normal.
Joins the Ribble between Arnford Weir and Low Moor, no more than 13.0 km by river above Low Moor. Nearest the Ribble: Bolton by Bowland Hellifield rd Normal.
Joins the Ribble between Low Moor and Henthorn, no more than 4.2 km by river above Henthorn. Nearest the Ribble: Waterloo Road Normal.
Joins the Ribble between Henthorn and New Jumbles Rock, no more than 5.0 km by river above New Jumbles Rock. Nearest the Ribble: Whalley Weir Normal; 12 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Green Brook, Pendle Water, River Brun, River Hyndburn and Sabden Brook.
Joins the Ribble between Henthorn and New Jumbles Rock, no more than 4.7 km by river above New Jumbles Rock. Nearest the Ribble: Hodder Place Normal; 1 more gauge further up. Gauged streams joining it: River Dunsop.
Joins the Ribble between New Jumbles Rock and Ribchester School, no more than 1.2 km by river above Ribchester School. Nearest the Ribble: Ribchester Sarmatian Bridge Normal.
Joins the Ribble between Walton-Le-Dale and Penwortham, no more than 4.5 km by river above Penwortham. Nearest the Ribble: Blue Bridge Low; 8 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Ewood Mill Race and River Blakewater.
No gauge below Penwortham is known on the river map.
Tributaries and where they join are traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04) and the Environment Agency’s links between its gauges. The map holds distances between gauges, not the junctions themselves, so a junction is placed between two gauges, and no further up than the tributary’s own lowest gauge. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
143 storm overflows are traced upstream of Penwortham, the Ribble’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Ribble itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Penwortham: 3,963 spills over 19,013 hours in total, across all 143.
Each overflow is listed in the stretch above the first gauge its water reaches, from the source down, as on the Gauges tab. A stretch of the Ribble includes the smaller streams that join it there. Every overflow traced is listed here, each stretch in full. Back to the short lists →
Within 3 km of one of the Ribble’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
33 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
A status is the water company’s own monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, never how much or why, and a spill does not by itself explain a change in a river level. A status older than two hours is shown as unknown. Annual figures are the official returns: 12/24-hour spills for England and Wales, overflow events for Scotland (Scottish Water counts differently, so the two cannot be compared). “No data” means the monitor produced no usable data that year, not zero. Overflows are placed on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels: an overflow the map cannot place may still drain here. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →
Live status: © United Utilities storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual figures for England: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dated samples taken by the Environment Agency, not live readings. Results are published days to months after the sample is taken, and many points are sampled only a few times a year, or have not been sampled for years.
184 sampling points on the River Ribble and the streams that join it above Penwortham. 47 have a sample from the last 12 months; 84 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Ribble and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Locks Weir | 6 points3 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Penny Bridge | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Arnford Weir | 9 points8 sampled | 1 Oct 2026 |
| River Hodder and its streamsjoins the Ribble above New Jumbles Rock | 31 points20 sampled | 29 Sep 2026 |
| River Calder and its streamsjoins the Ribble above New Jumbles Rock | 71 points21 sampled | 5 Aug 2026 |
| Above Low Moor | 14 points9 sampled | 10 Sep 2026 |
| Above Henthorn | 9 points6 sampled | 10 Sep 2026 |
| River Darwen and its streamsjoins the Ribble above Penwortham | 26 points9 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above New Jumbles Rock | 6 points3 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Ribchester Sarmatian BridgeBoyce's Brook · joins the Ribble above Ribchester School | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Ribchester School | 4 points2 sampled | 13 Mar 2025 |
| Above Samlesbury | 3 points1 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Walton-Le-Dale | 1 point | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Above Penwortham | 2 points1 sampled | 13 Aug 2026 |
England's samples only. Each count opens the list of those points, nearest first, with the date of each one’s latest sample (the gauge’s “Upstream of here” list).
FloodRadar does not grade these results: there is no overall score, and official river classifications are a separate dataset. A sample taken downstream of an overflow does not by itself show where anything in it came from. River connections and distances are traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.
Water samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
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